Rochester – Day 1

Singing Week has now been a traditional part of the choir’s year since 2000, which means that this is the eighteenth such venture. This year’s tour is also one of the most distant from Abergavenny….but not as far as some people originally thought. We met at 9.00, and had a half-hour rehearsal, allowing us to examine in detail today’s psalm, before packing everything into the minibus and cars before setting off on our journey. Simultaneously, others who had decided to travel by train, and were already “en route”.

The journey itself was fairly uneventful, with a stop at Reading services allowing partial solving of the caffeine deprivation problem. The M25 lived up to its reputation, and we spent a jolly half-hour sat in a traffic queue before it all eased up as we were underway again (“are we there yet???”). So we arrived in Rochester half an hour later than…